Anthrax lethal toxin-induced inflammasome formation and caspase-1 activation are late events dependent on ion fluxes and the proteasome

Cellular Microbiology

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 332-343

  Wickliffe, Katherine E ^a   Leppla, Stephen H ^a   Moayeri, Mahtab ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ALLERGY AND INFECTIOUS DISEASES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHRAX TOXIN; CASPASE INHIBITOR; INTERLEUKIN 18; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA; INTERLEUKIN 1BETA CONVERTING ENZYME; MULTIPROTEIN COMPLEX; POTASSIUM CHANNEL BLOCKING AGENT; POTASSIUM CHLORIDE; PROTEASOME; PROTEASOME INHIBITOR; SUCROSE;

ANIMAL CELL; ARTICLE; CELL DEATH; CELL PROTECTION; CYTOKINE RELEASE; CYTOTOXICITY; DOWNSTREAM PROCESSING; ENZYME ACTIVATION; GENE CONTROL; INFLAMMATION; ION CURRENT; MACROPHAGE; MOUSE; NONHUMAN; POTASSIUM TRANSPORT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN DEGRADATION; PROTEIN FUNCTION;

ANIMALS; ANTIGENS, BACTERIAL; APOPTOSIS; APOPTOSIS REGULATORY PROTEINS; BACTERIAL TOXINS; CASPASE 1; ENZYME ACTIVATION; ENZYME INHIBITORS; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; INTERLEUKIN-18; INTERLEUKIN-1BETA; ION TRANSPORT; MACROPHAGES; MICE; MICE, INBRED STRAINS; MITOGEN-ACTIVATED PROTEIN KINASE KINASES; PROTEASOME ENDOPEPTIDASE COMPLEX;

EID: 38049119726     PISSN: 14625814     EISSN: 14625822     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1462-5822.2007.01044.x     Document Type: Article

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